Aptos font family

Overview

Aptos is a precise, contemporary sans serif typeface inspired by mid-20th-century Swiss typography. Its clear-cut stroke endings emphasize order and restraint; the points where curved strokes meet straight strokes are crisp and well defined, which makes the typeface easily readable and reduces visual crowding.

Aptos expresses simplicity and rationality in a highly readable form, with “the austerity and directness that is required in huge variety of Office documents created every day,” according to designer Steve Matteson. Aptos can be used both for body text and headlines and for titles. Its variety of weights are appropriate for different uses: Light, Semibold, and Black weights can help create a hierarchy of information in PowerPoint and Word documents, while the Condensed weights give Excel users a way to fit more information into spreadsheets and tables. The Display versions are slightly narrower and more closely fitted, to give very large text a crisp authority.

Type designer Steve Matteson designed Aptos for Microsoft as a new default Office font to replace Calibri. It has six weights, from Light to Black, with complementary oblique styles. (In this style of typeface, the italic doesn’t typically take on the cursive forms you’d expect in handwriting or a traditional serif typeface; the letter shapes are oblique forms of the upright letters. The italics of Aptos have been individually redrawn, rather than mechanically slanted.) Aptos also has two Display weights, with their accompanying italic styles, and two Condensed weights, with italics. Aptos offers extended support of the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, and for Vietnamese.

	Description
File name	Aptos.ttfAptos-Black.ttf Aptos-Black-Italic.ttf Aptos-Bold.ttf Aptos-Bold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Display.ttf Aptos-Display-Bold.ttf Aptos-Display-Bold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Display-Italic.ttf Aptos ExtraBold Aptos-ExtraBold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Italic.ttf Aptos-Light.ttf Aptos-Light-Italic.ttf Aptos-Mono.ttf Aptos-Mono-Bold.ttf Aptos-Mono-Bold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Mono-Italic.ttf Aptos-Narrow.ttf Aptos-Narrow-Bold.ttf Aptos-Narrow-Bold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Narrow-Italic.ttf Aptos-SemiBold.ttf Aptos-SemiBold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Serif.ttf Aptos-Serif-Bold.ttf Aptos-Serif-Bold-Italic.ttf Aptos-Serif-Italic.ttf
Styles & Weights	Aptos Aptos Black Aptos Black Italic Aptos Bold Aptos Bold Italic Aptos Display Aptos Display Bold Aptos Display Bold Italic Aptos Display Italic Aptos ExtraBold Aptos ExtraBold Italic Aptos Italic Aptos Light Aptos Light Italic Aptos Mono Aptos Mono Bold Aptos Mono Bold Italic Aptos Mono Italic Aptos Narrow Aptos Narrow Bold Aptos Narrow Bold Italic Aptos Narrow Italic Aptos SemiBold Aptos SemiBold Italic Aptos Serif Aptos Serif Bold Aptos Serif Bold Italic Aptos Serif Italic

|Copyright| © 2023 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.| |Designers| Steve Matteson | |Font vendor| Microsoft Corp. | |Script Tags|dlng:'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn'
slng:'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' | |Code pages| 1252 Latin 1
1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe
1251 Cyrillic
1253 Greek
1254 Turkish
1257 Windows Baltic
1258 Vietnamese
| |Fixed pitch|False|

Licensing and redistribution info

• Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
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Products that supply this font

This typeface is available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.

Style & weight examples

• Figure 1: Image showcasing various weights and styles of the Aptos super family.